Let’s talk about crisps… and other treats November 10, 2012

Many years ago… okay, last year to be precise, I wrote a post lauding the following ‘A Blog About Crisps‘… being something of a fan myself. This is where someone or two goes through various types of crisps and rates them. And it’s Irish as well though open to all sorts of crisps and similar products.

I still like the old Walkers Baked crisps for the combination of crispness and healthiness – low low sats, even though they’re more difficult to find than they used to be (and on a visit to the UK over the Summer the range there had contracted to four types, cheese and onion, salt and vinegar, sour cream and onion and – my favourite – ready salted).

Funnily enough Aldi’s offering’s include the following, nothing like Hunky Dory’s. Nothing like them at all.

But check this out. A US based site critiques and criticises Mega Meanies (true fact, the staple of many a party bag for the under fives), TK red lemonade (which in a weird way has to be an Irish cultural victory of some sort, I remember in the late 1980s trying to explain ‘red’ lemonade to frankly uncomprehending Americans in New York), and back to crisps laying into Hunky Dory’s, but not over their former puerile advertising campaigns which were rubbish, but taking offence at Buffalo flavoured crisps? What’s the problem with buffalo? What’s not to love?

The near extinction of cheap crisps is one of the rarely lamented casualties of the tiger. Ghosties, Mummies, Crunchos. Hard pushed to find a packet of Hot Lips these days and the pink & yellow popcorn has disappeared altogether.